לכודים בין מעמד לאתנו־לאומיות: ג'נטריפיקציה פנים־ערבית בעיר המעורבת

Studies in urban sociology, particularly the study of gentrification,highlight how class displacement intersects with racial or ethnonationaldisplacement. Challenging this narrative, this study presents a new phenomenon –“Intra-Arab gentrification”: gentrification led by Arab entrepreneurs and business owners in Old Acre, revealing a complex relationship between class and ethnonationalism. Based on in-depth interviews and an analysis of policy documents and press articles, the study shows that entrepreneurs and public-housing tenants are caught in conflicts between their ethnonational and class identities and interests. Moreover, the study describes how intra-Arabgentrification, operating in the reality of a geopolitical conflict and a neo-liberaleconomy, intensifies tensions between classes in the Arab society and places the magainst each other in competition for assets. These findings contribute to a reevaluation of class and ethnonational intersection in a way that recognizes the opportunities and costs of gentrification for different classes in the same minority group. They further illustrates the ways in which class identity acts as a dividing force in an ethnonational minority group.